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Doctors treating a woman for severe weight loss and lethargy were shocked to discover she had a sex toy stuck inside her -- and it had been in place for a...

A pro-Russian woman living in the eastern separatist region of Ukraine posted pictures of herself on Instagram wearing makeup she claimed was looted from the Flight MH17 crash site. “Mascara...

Witness: Teen's plane flew low, but showed no obvious distress signs before diving into ocean

The United Nations claimed Thursday the Sunni militant group the Islamic State is ordering all girls and women to undergo female genital mutilation in Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq that the jihadists seized in J...

81-year-old Colorado woman rescued after spending several days stranded in bathtub

A spokeswoman for the Dutch forensic team investigating the MH17 crash-site tells the BBC that despite the difficulty of the task they hope to identify all victims.

A shooting at a suburban Philadelphia hospital Thursday afternoon left a psychiatric caseworker dead and two wounded, including a doctor, local authorities said.

The death penalty is only slightly less popular than it was last year, despite three very public botched executions and concerns over "cruel and unusual" punishment. 

The wreck of a plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found in Mali, officials say.

Comet Siding Spring is about to make a historic near miss of the red planet -- and NASA is preparing its Martian robots for the potentially hazardous encounter.

Last fall, a European drug "identical" to Plan B One-Step, Norlevo, was found to be less effective in heavier women. Naturally, Americans wondered if the same was true for Plan B, since 23 percent of American women aged ...

Go behind the scenes of the highly-anticipated film Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman. The film explores an individual’s brain capacity -- the film posits that humans currently use 10 percent of thei...

Israel's assault in Gaza kills 33 more Palestinians, pushing death toll over 800 as diplomacy efforts intensify.

Hi. I'm Will Saletan. I'm Slate's "National Correspondent," even though nobody here calls me that. They think I'm a "Senior Editor" or something like that. I asked for the title "National Correspondent" 10 years ago beca...

Nearly 100 accidents at military airbases caused by tall buildings being put up in flight paths, state media reports.

Washington Post reporter among 3 Americans believed detained in Iran

Passengers on the first jet to ­Israel from a New York-area airport Thursday blasted the federal government for the two-day ban on commercial flights to Tel Aviv, saying it made...

The Game of Thrones set appears to be much more fun than Westeros

"I am familiar with your country, I love your country," Florida Congressmember Curt Clawson told high-ranking U.S. officials Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar

New York police have collected DNA evidence in the case of nighttime acrobats who replaced two American flags atop of the Brooklyn Bridge with two white flags, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of th...

Sure, Fido is a brown lab. But inside he may be a little green, too. A study by scholars at the University of California-San Diego found that dogs showed jealous behaviors when their owners displayed affection toward an ...

The prolonged execution of Arizona death row inmate Joseph Wood was tantamount to torture, Sen. John McCain said.